3 weeks ago
‘We’re taking the RCMP to court’
A coalition of press freedom groups and media outlets is filing a legal application seeking to ensure press access to protests on Vancouver Island
1 year ago
Inside the manhunt
A reporter’s look into covering the cross-country manhunt for Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod
1 year ago
RCMP accused of creating ‘crisis of press freedom’ in Wet’suwet’en raids
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News
Limits on reporters’ access, threats of arrest bring criticism from media, journalism groups
1 year ago
CAJ: Rein in the RCMP, journalism is not a crime in Canada
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News
'Canada is a free country, not a police state. But it continues to get tripped up on issues of media freedoms.'
2 years ago
Vice reporter Ben Makuch loses final bid to block RCMP demand for background material
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News
By Colin Perkel
A reporter’s last-ditch attempt at blocking an RCMP demand for his background materials in a terrorism case failed Thursday with a judge refusing to stay the production order.
In her ruling, Ontario Superior Court Justice Breese Davies…
2 years ago
Forcing reporter to give RCMP info on ‘dead’ terror suspect ‘unreasonable,’ Vice argued at hearing
Forcing a reporter to give information on a terror suspect to the RCMP would be unreasonable given that the wanted Canadian man is almost certainly dead, an Ontario justice heard on Tuesday.
4 years ago
Vice Media reporter must turn over materials to RCMP, appeal court rules
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Law
By The Canadian Press
A Vice Media reporter must give the RCMP the background materials he used for stories on an accused terrorist, Ontario’s top court affirmed Wednesday.
In a case that pitted freedom of the press against the ability…
4 years ago
Free expression organizations protest charges against reporter
By Grant Buckler
Media and freedom of expression organizations are protesting after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police charged Justin Brake, a reporter for The Newfoundland and Labrador Independent, with mischief and disobeying a court order for entering the site…
4 years ago
Rally planned to support Vice journalist fighting RCMP production order
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News
By Grant Buckler
A coalition of press freedom organizations have planned a rally on Monday, Feb. 6, in support of Ben Makuch. The Vice Media Canada journalist was ordered in February 2015 to hand over information concerning interviews he…
5 years ago
Radio-Canada fights RCMP attempt to obtain interview materials
By Grant Buckler
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are seeking to obtain never-broadcast excerpts of interviews conducted by Alain Gravel, formerly of the Radio-Canada current affairs program Enquête, concerning alleged corruption at the Canada Revenue Agency.
According to a La …
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